Chindu Sreedharan - Etic (Page 7)

People at tables on a glass-walled seafront café terrace with festoon lights, grey sea beyond

Two women, hollandaise sauce, and me

I was having breakfast with two young women I didn’t know and a dog who was trying to know me intimately.

Ballroom couple competing, the woman in a red feathered dress and the man in a tailsuit, spectators behind

Just a few seconds more

It begins before. Before you hear the first bar of music, before you you even step on to the floor.

Smiling woman in a mortarboard and red floral dress, hands raised as confetti falls

Don’t splutter. Just say

There is this four-letter word in English that many of us are severely allergic to — and no, this one doesn’t start with ‘F’.

Crowded dance floor of couples dancing under blue nightclub lights

Thou shalt

Did you know in Indianapolis there are more men dancing than women? Thank goodness things are a bit different in England — and may it remain that way forever.

Graduates in gowns and hoods throwing mortarboards into the air in front of a city skyline at sunset

By Barry’s beard!

In my many years of marking student journalism, nothing has given me more pain than the apostrophe: my teeth are all gnashed-out now, and I think I am in need of an urgent hair transplant.

Two young women talking on a busy shopping street, passers-by behind

The strange things students say at the start of a term

The most interesting part of an academic year is the first couple of weeks. I love the buzz it brings.